Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, writer, painter, and photographer. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and received the MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a Masters Degree in English Literature from the University of Delaware. Some of her awards include scholarships to Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Napa Valley Writers Conference, New York State Summer Writers Institute, North Country Institute for Writers of Color and Soul Mountain.  Her first collection of poems, Miracle Arrhythmia, was selected as a finalist for the Naomi Long Madgett Award in 2007.  She has read her work at diverse venues including Cornelia Street Café, Nuyorican Café, The Bowery Poetry Club, louderARTS, Busboys&Poets Café, Manhattanville College, Sarah Lawrence College, Kettle of Fish Reading Series, EARSHOT Series, and many others.  She teaches at Medgar Evers College and Bloomfield College. Her poetry, fiction, photography/fine arts has appeared in Callaloo, Puerto Del Sol, Inkwell, Black Arts Quarterly, Lumina, Saranac Review, PMS: poem memoir story, Torch, Boxcar Poetry Review, Harpur Palate, Brilliant Corners, and others.